Intervenants > Afonso SilvaAfonso Silva U. Pittsburgh, USA Using a Multi-modal Neuroimaging Approach to Investigate the Anatomical and Functional Organization of the Primate Brain in Health and Disease
The common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus), a small non-human primate species endogenous to Brazil, has rapidly emerged as a promising animal model for biomedical and neuroscience research. The lissencephalic marmoset brain retains the stereotypical anatomical and functional organization of the primate brain, offering new opportunities to map neural circuits and functional connectome systemically and comprehensively. Developing appropriate analytical tools to study the marmoset brain in great detail is an essential enabling step to promote neuroimaging studies of marmosets. The Marmoset Brain Mapping project (https://marmosetbrainmapping.org) is a multi-atlas set of brain templates with labeled anatomical structures and highly accurate tissue-type segmentation maps that facilitate volumetric studies. The three main versions of the atlas (V1: Cortical Map; V2: White-Matter Pathways; V3: Population-Based Atlases) contain fully featured brain surfaces and cortical flat maps to facilitate 3D visualization and surface-based analyses, which are compatible with most surface analyzing tools, including FreeSurfer, AFNI/SUMA, and the Connectome Workbench. The anatomical Marmoset Brain Mapping Project includes multi-modal MRI and CT data of 39 marmosets. This open-access resource features comprehensive image modalities, accurate tissue segmentation maps, multi-atlas labeled template space, and fully featured brain surface and flat maps for surface-based analysis. To complement the Marmoset Brain Mapping Project, we also developed the Marmoset Brain Connectome Project (https://marmosetbrainconnectome.org) consisting of over 70 hours of resting-state fMRI (RS-fMRI) data acquired at 500 µm isotropic resolution from 31 awake marmosets in a common stereotactic space. The open-access resource stores three-dimensional functional connectivity (FC) maps for every cortical and subcortical gray matter voxel in an online repository. Users can instantaneously view, manipulate, and download any whole-brain functional connectivity (FC) topology along with the raw datasets and preprocessing code. We expect that this resource will be of broad value, supporting novel hypotheses about the anatomical and functional organization of the marmoset brain in health and disease.
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